Rereading the classic family instructions of the ancients will help us to re-establish the concept of family education, cultivate family style, cultivate self-cultivation and family harmony today. In the cultural inheritance across time and space, this is probably inspired by the ancient classic family precepts.
The family is the epitome of the country.
Self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world are the creeds respected by intellectuals in Confucian tradition.
In ancient China, "People must have a family, and the family must have training." Family Instructions, as the admonition and instruction of parents and grandparents in the family or family, has become a family education reading for later Confucian intellectuals and the most distinctive part of the traditional cultural treasures of the Chinese nation. It has a history of more than 3,000 years in China to admonish family and children with family precepts.
There are many sayings about family training, and some people have made statistics and detailed descriptions. There are no fewer than 70 sayings including family rules, family training, family education, family rules and family laws, but the most widely used one is "family training". There are many forms, such as admonitions, last words, letters, poems, aphorisms, works and so on.
How many family precepts have been handed down in ancient China? It is no exaggeration to describe it as "sweating profusely". From the pre-Qin dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties, those family precepts which are widely representative and classic are still widely known even in modern times. Zhou Gongdan's Commanding Birds Book, Sima Tan's Commanding Book, Zhuge Liang's Commanding Book, Yan Zhitui's Yan Family Instructions, Li Shimin's Family Instructions, Bao Zheng's Bao Zheng Family Instructions, Ouyang Xiu's Teaching Theory, Yuan Cai's Yuan Family Demonstration, Zhu Bailu's Zhu Zi Family Instructions and Li Yuxiu's Family Instructions.
Family instructions are often written by the elders in the family or children with prestige and social status, and are taught to the children of the family as a criterion for treating people and educating their children; There are also some children who remember the words of their elders and set an example for future generations.
"A paper book is only for the wall, let him three feet. The Great Wall of Wan Li is still there today, and Qin Shihuang is not seen. " Zhang Ying, the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, wrote this poem to comfort his family, which was widely circulated. Among them, "Why not let him be three feet" has almost become a mantra to stop the fight, and his son Zhang was a well-known etiquette in the early Qing Dynasty, living in Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties. The article "What's wrong with being three feet tall —— Enlightenment from Six-foot Hutong in Tongcheng, Anhui Province" published on the website of the Supervision Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China wrote: "The prime ministers of both father and son are honest officials, caring for the people and being exemplary. It should be said that they benefited from Zhang Ying's words and deeds, from the family style of indifference and self-denial, and from Liuchi Hutong. "